Understanding Seed Mix and Seeding Rate

150 to 220 pounds to the acre of contractor mix okay so that is going to be about 80 percent fescue and about 20 percent annual rye grass now i advise these folks and this is the land we're gonna be drilling it down on right here i advise them to get the spring mix not the fall mix now typically you'll put down the uh millet mix so to be 20 percent millet 80 fescue but instead they accidentally got the wrong thing so we're gonna do the wrong thing today and we'll see how it does we'll uh give you guys a full report on that in the future let's take you around the sea drill and show you so this is the bare spot that we're gonna be seeding it's about yeah two acres two and a half acres something like that probably gonna take every bit of 45 minutes back to front this is the woods precision super cedar oregon illinois made in the usa woods just means quality this is a pss-72 and it's a little different than any seed drill you've probably ever seen before you've got three hoppers right here this is warm season grasses and native grasses this is for like fescue grasses and cool season grasses and this is for clover c we'll open this guy up right here big lesson learned guys never ever ever got a kick stand right there by the way never leave grass seed in your hopper and at the end of using any cedar always go in with a little shop vac and vacuum all this stuff out because it will get moisture in there it will sprout and it will rust out your equipment so know that for sure it's a little kickstand right here each one of these has a nice little door this one's a little different if you don't secure this and this thing's loaded with seed it will flop and bounce and your seed will come out okay so you want to make sure it's closed this is our cool seasons and cereal grains we'll crank this guy up we also have a kickstand here we'll raise that guy down with our kickstand just like so we've got an awesome chart right here and this is what we've got it set at i think we're set at three quarters and we're looking at tall fescue so we're going to be making an adjustment that would be 98 pounds to the acre we want to move it on out to about 150 pounds so that's one and one eight here's how to adjust okay we're coming down here there's a little measuring tool right there loosen this handle oh right there let me go on out to the one and one-eighth mark just like that snugger back down and then our fescue grass seed will fall down through each one of these little shoots…